Ann Hochschild, PhD

Chair, Maude & Lillian Presley Professor

Ann grew up in the Bay Area in California and graduated from Radcliffe College with a degree in English Literature. Transitioning to science, she carried out her graduate work in Mark Ptashne’s laboratory at Harvard University, studying the regulatory mechanisms of phage lambda gene expression. After receiving her Ph.D. in Cellular and Developmental Biology and three postdoctoral years as a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows, she joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School. She currently serves as Chair of the Department of Microbiology. Her honors include a Searle Scholar Award, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award, election to the American Academy of Microbiology and an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award.